Here is my problem, I have been tasked with building a plugin/ script for my employer that can be used in Indesign top extract elements out of an Indesign document into the correct formats and then package them up to be imported into our application.
For the most part I have the extraction down, using plain JavaScript. However I have read in several places that it is possible to use Node JS to develop solutions for Indesign which would be great as it would mean I could use some NPM packages to a couple of things I still need to do.
The difficulty here is that everything I have found on the subject is either out of date or when I try the examples they give they simply do not work. I've spent a large portion of time now going through the SDK documentation to try and find my answer but have been unsuccessful.
I did stumble across this article Extend Adobe CC 2014 apps | Adobe Developer Connection which at least showed me the basic structure of what I needed but I haven't the foggiest idea how I would test this in Indesign.
It really shouldn't be this difficult to write an extension/plugin/script or what ever you want to call them especially since JavaScript and as far as I can tell Node and its various packages can be used, so It would be great if someone could stop me from going round in circles again and put me on the right path.
Thanks.